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  Theatre in Review: The Seafarer (Irish Repertory Theatre)
I believe in the Devil, but I'm not sure I believe in Matthew Broderick. The actor is currently appearing at the Irish Rep as Mr. Lockhart, who has been invited in for a Christmas Eve round of poker in the home of Richard Harkin, a ...
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Theatre in Review: Carousel (Imperial Theatre)
A simple, stunning gesture, only a few minutes into the first act, convinced me that all would be well with Jack O'Brien's revival of the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic fantasy of love, death, and redemption. As you probably ...
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Theatre in Review: Frozen (St. James Theatre)
It is nearly a quarter of a century since the opening of Beauty and the Beast, and the people at Disney Theatricals are still working out how to transfer their highly stylized animated films to the stage. Believe me, I sympathize: ...
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Theatre in Review: Mlima's Tale (The Public Theater)
Mlima's Tale begins with an atrocity, then traces the long chain of corruption that follows; the playwright Lynn Nottage has constructed a tale of the black market ivory trade, laying bare the bribes, deception, and ...
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Theatre in Review: One Thousand Nights and One Day/Goldstein
Two new musicals are founded on the power of stories to shape our lives. Now at Ars Nova, Prospect Theatre Company's One Thousand Nights and One Day, based on Jason Grote's well-received 2007 play, 1001, adopts ...
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Theatre in Review: King Lear (Royal Shakespeare Company/Brooklyn Academy of Music)
The moment when Gregory Doran's production becomes a Lear for the ages comes in Act I, Scene III, when the title character realizes that he has nurtured what the Duke of Albany calls "tigers, not daughters." (And Albany ought to ...
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Theatre in Review: Bobbie Clearly (Roundabout Underground)/Ms. Estrada (The Flea Theater)
Two new Off Broadway productions focus on individuals who play disruptive roles in their respective communities. From an early age, the title character of Bobbie Clearly has stood out in his hometown of Milton, Nebraska, ...
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Theatre in Review: The Edge of Our Bodies (TUTA Theatre/59E59)
Whatever one thinks of The Edge of Our Bodies -- and, despite some baffling theatrics, it contains a great deal of beautiful writing -- it is a golden chance to make the acquaintance of Carolyn Molloy. As Bernadette, a ...
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Theatre in Review: Miss You Like Hell (The Public Theater)
The unambiguous reason to see this new musical at the Public is Gizel Jimenez. As Olivia, a bookish, lone-wolf adolescent who pours out every detail of her angry heart in a blog, earning a loyal fan base, she is more than capable of ...
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Theatre in Review: Lobby Hero (Second Stage/Hayes Theatre)
With its underachieving characters, most of whom have a tendency to run off at the mouth, Lobby Hero might be classified by some as a slacker play, not unlike This is Our Youth, playwright Kenneth Lonergan's ...
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Theatre in Review: This Flat Earth (Playwrights Horizons)
In This Flat Earth, playwright Lindsey Ferrentino clearly wants to say something about the spate of school shootings that has plagued this country -- but exactly what she has in mind never becomes clear. The play is a ...
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Theatre in Review: The Lucky Ones (Ars Nova/Connelly Theatre)
In their previous show, Hundred Days -- seen only a few months ago -- Abigail and Shaun Bengson offered a remarkably incomplete confession. This musical memoir focused on their meeting, followed by a rush into marriage ...
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Theatre in Review: Mean Girls (August Wilson Theatre)
The title characters of Mean Girls are no better than they should be, and so is the musical that they inhabit. Given the fan base of the 2004 film -- by Tina Fey -- on which it is based, the musical probably only needed to be ...
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Theatre in Review: Three Tall Women (Golden Theatre)
"I. Am. Here!" So says Glenda Jackson, delivering each word with enough force to drive piles into the foundation of the Golden Theatre. Really, she doesn't need to assert herself; she has had us from the start, when she announced, ...
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Theatre in Review: Feeding the Dragon (Primary Stages/Cherry Lane Theatre)
When I was a boy, I would have loved nothing more than to live in a library -- for this bookish youth, it would have been the perfect wedding of supply and demand -- and I am frankly envious that Sharon Washington got to do so. In ...
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Theatre in Review: The Winter's Tale (Theatre for a New Audience)
In her new production of Shakespeare's fascinating, famously troubled drama, the director Arin Arbus does something extremely daring: She opens the show with the bear. You remember him: He usually shows up at the halfway point, the ...
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Theatre in Review: Angels in America, Parts I and II (Neil Simon Theatre)
When you attend a Tony Kushner play, you must expect revelations. I happened to see Angels in America on Holy Thursday and Good Friday -- and, partly thanks to Marianne Elliott's staging, a magnificent thing of ...
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Theatre in Review: Yerma (Young Vic/Park Avenue Armory)
The set designer Lizzie Clachan has created a kind of human terrarium for Yerma, an appropriately clinical space in which to witness the tragedy of a woman driven to madness by her inability to conceive a child. It's a ...
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Theatre in Review: A Walk in the Woods (The Barrow Group)
I never thought I'd say this, but I'm getting nostalgic for the Cold War. Well, almost: Of course, during those years, there was a good chance that the world would be blown to bits -- but, really, the rules of engagement were clear, and, ...
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Theatre in Review: Pygmalion (Bedlam/Sheen Center)
The people at Bedlam are much more respectful of George Bernard Shaw than James M. Barrie. Only a few months ago, they sliced and diced Peter Pan into a nearly incomprehensible performance piece seemingly designed to violate ...
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